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verify

[ver-uh-fahy] / ˈvɛr əˌfaɪ /


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To verify, Khosla drives 20 miles east to the Mt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

And both the GUR and the men are cautious about how much detail they share, making it impossible to verify the activities the men claim to have carried out.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

It was a routine question, to verify their relationship.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

"Please verify the identity of the person you are looking for before contacting, tagging, or making accusations against someone."

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

“Say it took her half-an-hour to have lunch, what was she doing from two until three? We ought to verify that,” said Colonel Julyan.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

OpenAI published its findings along with the 165-page proof and a formalization that verifies the argument step by step.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

GeoConfirmed, a volunteer-driven open-source intelligence project that verifies visuals from conflicts around the globe, also urged Google to reconsider.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

The SIR process verifies current voter records against the 2002 electoral rolls, the last time such a nationwide revision was carried out.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

Los Angeles County election officials say you can check in at a vote center by scanning your “quick check-in code” — a number that verifies your voter registration.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

While in her hero-dust there lies, Whatever glory verifies!

From Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental by Various

“For those of us whose life circumstances have created options A, B, C, D, E, F and G, she might have options A and B,” El-Sayed said of the anecdote, which couldn’t be independently verified.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Trading cards and other collectibles are verified and assigned condition grades by PSA, which establishes their value and protects them by assigning serial numbers and certification information.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

It says it had not verified those outcomes and "cannot attribute the recruitment decisions to our training".

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

The prediction became known as the Aharonov-Bohm effect and was eventually verified in experiments involving real electrons.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

At least one of Carrel’s former lab assistants verified Hayflick’s suspicion.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

And the company knew that “ordinary consumers” had no way of verifying that Facebook was telling the truth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

But the letters included allegations alone, no evidence or data verifying DHS’s claims, which Weber said she flagged and asked to see, to no avail.

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2026

The FAI governing body, holding its 120th general conference in Lausanne from Wednesday to Friday, validated the record attempt after verifying the flight data.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

In December 2025, the European Commission said the platform "deceives users" by allowing people to pay for a blue verified check mark, because it is not "meaningfully verifying" who is behind the account.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

But the evidence verifying the oxygenless climb was irrefutable.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer


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